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The Cremator
Directed by
Juraj Herz
Not Rated
1969
1h 36m
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Set in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
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Cast of The Cremator
Rudolf Hrušínský
Karel Kopfrkingl
Vlasta Chramostová
Lakmé / Dagmar
Jana Stehnová
Zina
Miloš Vognič
Mili
Ilja Prachař
Walter Reinke
Zora Božinová
Reinkeová
Eduard Kohout
Bettleheim
Jiří Lír
Strauss
Dimitri Rafalsky
Fenek
Jan Vlček
Vrána
Václav Halama
Pelikán
Jiří Hálek
Rámar Holý
Václav Kotva
Josífek Zajíc
Míla Myslíková
Silly Woman
Vladimír Menšík
Silly Woman's Husband
Jiří Menzel
Dvorak
Václav Štekl
Musician / Box Referee / Panopticon Owner
Nataša Gollová
Madam in the Massage Parlor
Jindřich Narenta
Nazi in Smoking Suit
Helena Anýžová
Pale Girl
The Cremator Ratings & Reviews
Cinapse
Julian Singleton
The Cremator is a stunningly-shot portrait of systemic evil at its most terrifyingly mundane, and provides a watch that is as chilling as it is bleakly humorous.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
While retrospect allows one to appreciate The Cremator's comically monstrous undertones, it's dismaying sense of dread has only become more potent over time.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
The Cremator is essential viewing if you're a lover of morbid black comedy, the kind of cinema that lies on the delicate border between horror and social satire.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Herz practiced a surrealism that is bare of whimsy and armed with aggression; one image splinters into the next, and, in the opening scene, full of caged beasts, you feel the prowling presence of Kafka.
New York Times
Roger Greenspun
Kopfrkingl himself, played by Rudolf Hrusinky, with the face of a gently demonic Charles Laughton and the manner of a malevolent Herbert Marshall, is a creation of considerable interest.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
While it's a bit programmatic for my taste, this 1968 black comedy in black and white is undeniably creepy -- once director Juraj Herz enters the fractured mind of his protagonist, he refuses to budge.
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